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| Australian Ship Detects New Signals as Plane Hunt Narrows |
| 2014-04-10 |
| [An Nahar] Two fresh signals have been picked up in the search for missing Malaysian flight MH370, raising hopes Wednesday that wreckage will be found within days even as black box batteries start to expire. Australian ship Ocean Shield detected the signals Tuesday to match a pair of transmissions picked up over the weekend that have been analyzed as consistent with signals from the plane's flight data recorder, the head of the search said. "Ocean Shield has been able to reacquire the signals on two more occasions, late yesterday afternoon and later last night," said Angus Houston, head of the Joint Agency Coordination Center. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #12 3dc: Have you been checking out Duncan Steel's website? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-04-10 21:35 |
| #11 I still think they are holed up in the Burma jungle with the opium warlords. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2014-04-10 20:56 |
| #10 The French found the black box for AF 447 almost three years after the crash. However, it was not pinging. Not sure how they found it in 20,000' of ocean. Found some surface debris within a week. AF 447 link |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-04-10 18:22 |
| #9 I heard/read that the 30 day number was in ideal conditions. Colder and deeper water deteriorates the box faster. IIRC |
| Posted by: mossomo 2014-04-10 16:53 |
| #8 Tractor beams got 'em almost certainly an no one is saying anything. I blame Massey Ferguson. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-04-10 15:50 |
| #7 I would wonder if 30 days is the 'minimum' time the batteries would last and not a set 'expiration date'. Or perhaps 30 days until the transmission power starts to seriously degrade... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-04-10 14:23 |
| #6 It's claimed 30 days then it's up to the batteries. It's been 30 days... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-04-10 13:32 |
| #5 Any normal, knowledgeable Rantburger know if the black box(es?) would even be transmitting at this point? |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-04-10 13:27 |
| #4 Indian Ocean's pretty big. There's 3000 miles or so between Diego Garcia and Perth. I know all the misinformation specialists are pushing Diego Garcia in a multitude of scenarios for their usual disinformation reasons, I wonder what they're covering for. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-04-10 02:12 |
| #3 Yet more conspiracy insinuation shit, go fuck off. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-04-10 02:07 |
| #2 Curiously enough, Gateway Pundit had a story about the Pentagon blocking travel leave to Diego Garcia. Never been there myself, but DG never seemed like a tourist destination. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-04-10 00:33 |
| #1 If it wasn’t such a tragic event we could all freely laugh with great gusto at the mainstream media regarding the disappearance of Malaysian flight 370. Every single source, substantiated or not, has been taken as a great revelation. It was and continues to be a sad circus of events. Of those following the serious clues left available there is only one question to ask. Why does no one mention the Indian Oceans most advanced and secure air base, the stationary Aircraft Carrier located south of the southern tip of India called Diego Garcia? Not a peep. Not even an indication of a US managed military installation that monitors everything in this war region. In fact the best old metaphor regarding the lack of reference to this location is “The Silence Is Deafening.” So here it is. As CNN, Fox, MSNBC, CBC, BBC, CTV and all the rest are prepared to spout off theories without any solid confirmation, here is one from a source who wishes to remain unidentified from Northwest BC Canada. This individual comes from a three decade long background of exposing the secrets the military forces would rather have remained secret. He has recently revealed what happened to flight 370. ‘Film at Eleven’. Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah prepared and practised with his home flight simulator and had determined the maximum speed and angle of descent the Boeing 777 could withstand. As soon as the flight reached the extent of the Malaysian radar capability, when he knew they would no longer expect to see his radar signal, he wished the ground crews good night. He then turned off one tracking device, waited to see if anyone responded or raised alarm for 15 minutes, then turned off all communication devices. He locked the cabin door to prevent anyone from entering after asking his co-pilot to get him a drink or check on a system outside of the cockpit. The Captain then immediately turned the plane southwest into a known flight path and climbed to over 40,000 ft,. the maximum structural capability of the Boeing 777. He put on the pilot supplied air mask and kept the plane at over 40,000 ft until he was certain all the passengers and crew, including his co-pilot, were asphyxiated. From his flight simulator experimentation he had already determined the precise coordinates where he would initiate his next action. To bring the plane down at the maximum speed and maximum angle of descent to make a direct hit on the fuel storage tanks at Diego Garcia. As he initiated this direct course of action the American Military had not been concerned with the radar blip of this flight at 40,000 plus feet. They monitor vessels and flights which appear to be a threat or are invading their space. However they were suddenly brought to complete attention as their warning systems set off alarms. The base at Diego Garcia attempted to make radio contact and immediately dispatched interceptors. Knowing full well this was an imminent threat, having no time to debate the issue and recognizing the aircraft was operating in what was basically ‘stealth’ mode, uncommunicative, the plane was shot out of the sky. Becoming aware of which flight it was with the political and potential military repercussions, the US military ordered a complete lock down on all communications regarding the event and began dispatching crews to locate and pick up all the debris. When the rest of the world became aware the flight was missing the US Navy offered all their resource to help them look for it in the South China Sea, then the Gulf of Thailand, Bay of Bengal and the Strait of Malacca. This kept the worlds attention focused away from the location they were cleaning up. US 7th Fleet Commander William Marks told CNN “We wait for the Malaysians to tell us where to search and we go there.” This is the most telling statement of all. Since when does the US take directions from Malaysia unless they are simply providing the rope to let them hang themselves. The most powerful radar systems in the region are at Diego Garcia. A perfect target for such an attack, one the USA stopped and one they simply cannot reveal to the world due to the nationality of the passengers on board. They will continue to assist in the search while doing everything to ensure no one even mentions Diego Garcia in the mainstream media. |
| Posted by: Spemp Glinter4922 2014-04-10 00:10 |